FRAUDULENT LAWYERS.
TO THE EDITOB.
Sir, —I observe by your cables that yet another solicitor—one who aeted as lay reader in a church and performed other similar duties—has beea charged with misappropriating money entrusted to his care. These cases occur again and again, and it is often an unsuspected and so-called respectable member of the profession who turns out to be a fraud. I am opposed to Government interference a? a rale, but the public will never be protected against these wolves in sheep's clothing until lawyers' books are subjected to inspection and audit at irregular intervals by a responsible officer to be appointed by the authorities. Solicitors, though entrusted in a wholesale manner with funds, are not under any outside supervision, and it is only when the money of widows and fatherless children, who trust these men for their respectability, disappears, and it is too late, that their real character is revealed. All honourable members of their profession, and there are many, will welcome such an investigation. I trust something in the direction indicated will become law at the next sitting of Parliament.—l am, &a., March 20. Safett.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 10625, 21 March 1896, Page 3
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